"I'm getting sick of the way a pair of convicted criminals are being portrayed as martyrs," Brian of Narangba penned. "I'm sure your sob story for those two "supposed" reformed characters will strike a chord with some uneducated readers," another opined, "but certainly not with families who have lost loved ones to drugs. Let justice be done."

"I am sick to death of hearing about this. Just let them go quietly," Bob from Brisbane wrote. And Me from Perth added this: "Deal in death then expect to get punished with death when in Indonesia. It's really not rocket science you know."

A couple of columns on the need for Billy Gordon to zip up his pants and quit Parliament had his cheer squad out in force. "Tell me again what he has done wrong?" Grigori from North Mackay asked. "I love the way the privileged elite can never understand people like Bill Gordon," Brisbane Bear added. "Walk a mile in his shoes Madonna."

Others like Rolo sided with me. "Wholeheartedly agree," he posted. And I am White By the Way added this: "I grew up in much the same circumstances to Billy Gordon and I never used my past as an excuse. Totally agree with you Madonna."

Always - and I mean always - some readers will try and find a political leaning. Like ABC commentators, which I was once, I tended to "lean left yet live right", one reader ruled. "Oh, Madonna, you are going to upset the lefties if you keep stating the facts," another said.

But Raz kept no one wondering, with his post on Billy Gordon: "What I don't get is how any male could actually think their penis was attractive enough to warrant a selfie. I have one; sure, it's useful, but it's not exactly photogenic."

The year was only new when the LNP Government, led by Campbell Newman, suffered the biggest backlash in Australian political history.

"Typical Madonna King lefty piece," Craig Middleton wrote, in response to a satirical letter I penned from Campbell Newman to voters explaining how we got the election vote wrong. "Totally disrespectful and just proves how one sided she is."

Not so, according to Really, who shot back with: "And how is it disrespectful of a lying, greedy, arrogant, ignorant little dictator? You want to stay off the LNP Kool-aid son, it's rotting your brain." Shaslik joined in. "Oh please, if she's a lefty, then I'm Naomi Campbell."

Naomi Campbell or not - that doesn't mean everyone is siding with Annastacia Palasczuk, and increasingly my email box is filling with advice on how she needs to handle the state's unions, the quality of her Cabinet, and the urgent need to make some big decisions.

But left or right, wrong or right, almost everyone agreed that we didn't do enough for young Tiffany Taylor, the 16-year-old girl who was murdered this year. She was last tagged by authorities when she was 12, and seemed to slip through the cracks in the community, which should safeguard our children.

"Exactly the conversation that was had with my school mum circle yesterday afternoon," Betsy said. "Finally someone stating the bleeding obvious," says Anon.

That column explained that 15,000 schoolchildren are now being fed breakfast at school each day, and Foodbank, which supplies donated food to organisations to feed the hungry, have 40,712 children in Brisbane on its weekly list. About 30,000 young people are searching for a job in Ipswich, and 23,000 in the Logan-Beaudesert area.

One response came from a mother of five girls and a son who has worked hard to give them everything she can. "Society fails our teenage girls," she said. "One year ago, my then 14-year-old daughter told me she wasn't coming home."

Her daughter didn't, and the woman contacted police. When her daughter was returned, police asked her whether she wanted to remain at home. "She said no," her mother told me. "They then announced that they were going to arrest me for deprivation of liberty. Something needs to change, and change fast or there will be a growing list of young girls who are never coming home."

It's comments like that, that really make me stop and think. And they quickly wash the abusive ones away. Thank you, and happy new year.